The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-10-03
BRIEF JoTTINCS.

There is talk of getting up reunion of the
old LOG Cabin" Society.
Marshal Booth will attend the anniversary
of the Salvation Army in this city.
M. +. Davis is finishing what he calls the
finest pleasure boat he has ever built.
The rain of Saturday was heavy and it
came in good time.
There were AZ arrests last week. of which
SO were for drunkenness.
Close time on deer and moose ended Satur-
day.
The Argonauts will open their new rooms
at 10. II Market Square tonight.
Sunday was summer day up to D. M.
when there were heavy showers, accom-
panied by thunder.
The roots of large tree at the corner of
Congress and Lafayette streets were blown
up with dynamite Saturday.
Mr.. Haskell will play Mr. Courtney of
Worcester series of pool games for 500
side.
fast freight train will be put on the
Maine Central when the new time table goes
into effect, October oath.
Mannix Brothers have now s5 men en-
ployed cutting the stone for the new grand
PteoobhBCA
Engine No. wa 6dt for trial run Satur-
day morning, preparatory to contending for
tthheT PIE at Bath.
Mr.. James Kerrgan, who fell from his
wagon Wednesday last, and whose horse
stepped on his arm, is improving.
The Portland Teachers Association will
meet this evening for organization and dis
cussion.
The representatives to the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, l. o. o. f., returned from Den
yer, Saturday.
Deputy Crowell, Officers McDo nough and
Sparrow seized 800 bottles of beer on Fore
street, concealed under an oil carpeting,
on Saturday
Officers Sylvester and Eaton arrested
three men Saturday night for making trouble
In Freeman's oyster house, on Commercial
street.
The annual meeting of the 9TH Maine
Auxiliary Corps will be held at Long Island
tomorrow. Boats will leave Custom House
Wharf at a. m. and 2.15 D. m.
The Globe Steam Laundry on Temple
street has passed into the control of Mr..
I. j. rockingham. 1t is needless to say
that 1t will be managed in first class order.
The members Of Machigonne, Eastern
Star, Portland and Falmouth Encampments
will remember the meeting at Encampment
Hall tonight at 745 o'clock.
Mr.. Bakers new cottage on Mackworth's
Island will be a pretty two-storied villa.
Mr.. j. G. Stevens drew the plans. Ground
will be broken today
The new rooms of the Wheel Club in
Beaver Block will be very handsome. The
general club room will overlook Congress
street. with the smoking room in the rear
Mr. Edward II. Davei, the manager of the |
property at the corner of Park and Congress
street, says that the property has not only |
not been sold, but there has been no talk of |
selling it, for hotel or anything else.
Among last weeks exports were 100,S32 |
slaves, 67,S17 feet of boards, S,IS5 shocks, |
44,S5l feet of lumber, 6,610 shocks and heads. |
Among the imports were 6265 ions of coal |
and 356 hogsheads of sugar.
The Horse Railroad Company will Law an |
other track from India street to Market
Square on Middle street this week, and ex
pect two new cars, one for the Congress and
the other for the Spring street line.
Between and 8 p. m. Wednesday the
single scull race between the Dirigos and
Cumberlands will be rowed from Union
Wharf and return, one mile each way, for
$50.
The Young Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union will meet this afternoon at 3
o'clock at the headquarters, oh Exchange
street. Reports of the convention will be
given by those who attended
Lieut.. Cusick has received request from
the officer in command of Kennebec arsenal
to secure men for the ordnance department.
Carpenters, masons and machinists are pre-
ferred.
A few days ago Mr.. W. E. Cousins received
from the parents of those children he saved
from drowning at Peaks Island, Sept. 10th,
handsome gold medal as token of the
esteem in which he is held by them.
Michael Shaughnessey, a pack peddler,
was arrested Saturday morning for alleged
fraud in offering inferior goods for sale and
representing them to be of a greater value
A piece of wooden goods he tried to sell for
six dollars yard was estimated by compe-
tent persons to be worth about one dollar.